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WORK/LIFE is our first major exhibition, funded by Historic England’s Everyday Heritage programme. It dives into the working class history of East Lancashire to explore the changing relationships between work and leisure, town and countryside.
Focused on picturesque villages at the foot of Pendle Hill – Barley, Newchurch-in-Pendle and Roughlee – we’ll be exploring how families from local mill towns travelled to the countryside for relaxation, and how this transformed these tiny villages into rural leisure destinations for workers between 1900-1980.
Incorporating Roughlee’s Boating Lake and Pleasure Grounds, Happy Valley Tea Garden, Clarion House, Noggarth Tea Garden, Thorneyholme Hall and the Bay Horse Inn; Barley’s Pendle Inn and Old Post Office Tearoom; and Newchurch’s Lamb Inn and Friendly Inn, and many more.
Please share your memories — email us at hello@pendlehillmuseum.org.
Image Copyright © The Francis Frith Collection
